- From: Brad Kemper <brkemper@comcast.net>
- Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 09:07:42 -0700
- To: www-style@w3.org
Paul, that is a good argument not to use it that way all the time,
and perhaps not on BBC headlines, but there are probably a lot of
situations to be able to lowercase the letters first, before
capitalizing them.
For instance, I often have to deal with a system that stores all of
its data in ALL CAPS, and I use VBscript on the server right now to
make them lowercase and then Initial Capped. It does mess up a few
things like initialisms, but it is more acceptable than the
alternative, at least for me with that (limited) particular usage.
If I understand correctly, what Jens proposed would not actually
change the way "capitalize" would work on its own (it would still not
affect letters that did not begin a word whn not combined with a
different key word), but would only have the side effect you
described when combined with "lowercase" in the same text
transformation. It does seem like a good option to me. Perhaps a new
key word ("upperandlowercase") would be easier to implement than
combining two there?
On Oct 7, 2007, at 3:02 PM, Paul Nelson (ATC) wrote:
>
> I believe that we are better off doing as what the current
> specification
> gives in this regards.
>
> capitalize - Puts the first character of each word in uppercase; other
> characters are unaffected
>
> A stylesheet would have to be verified against every usage if the
> proposal is used ([lowercase || capitalize])
>
> The following are headlines from
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/default.stm.
> "Poland debate aired on UK radio" -> "Poland Debate Aired On Uk Radio"
> "US conciliatory over missile plan" -> "Us Conciliatory Over Missile
> Plan"
> "Barclays drops ABN Amro offer" -> Barclays Drops Abn Ambro Offer"
>
>
> I can think of places where there are advantages to the proposal, I
> believe there are too many common uses of capitalized text that
> would be
> converted incorrectly.
>
> Paul
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: www-style-request@w3.org [mailto:www-style-request@w3.org] On
> Behalf Of Jens Meiert
> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 1:28 AM
> To: www-style@w3.org
> Subject: Proposal: "text-transform" property revision
>
>
> Dear Working Group,
>
>
> I may suggest again what I proposed almost three years ago [1], to
> slightly modify the "text-transform" property [2] (or its allowed
> value
> combinations, respectively):
>
> uppercase | [lowercase || capitalize] | none | inherit
>
> The above combination just intends to allow
>
> text-transform: lowercase capitalize
>
> as well, a combination that enables grammar compliant "styling" of
> words
> so that they become, sure, lowercase but also capitalized. Thus,
> authors
> could e.g. (almost) "correct" the formatting of English headings,
> and it
> would surely benefit many other languages as well.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Jens.
>
>
> [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2004Feb/0507.html
> [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/text.html#caps-prop
>
> --
> Jens Meiert
> http://meiert.com/en/
>
>
>
>
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